Kit Kat® at Safeway
Safeway is a conventional independent running 13 Bay Area stores, large-format at about 37,374 sq ft each, indexing high on established names versus other Bay Area grocers.
Kit Kat® is a renowned brand known for its chocolate-covered wafer bars, offering a variety of flavors including milk chocolate, dark chocolate, and vanilla.
It’s already on the shelf here, with 10 SKUs across 1 category. The growth is depth and breadth: 1 category to widen and 1 new door to enter, replicated across all 13 stores.
Lead with Kit Kat Dark Chocolate Bar in Chocolate Candies.
Safeway stocks chocolate candies thinly, so a differentiated snack stands out instead of becoming the Nth option on a crowded shelf. It already earns space at 3 other Bay Area grocers.
Safeway merchandises 3 of the 4 categories the brand sells.
no strong clean/diet signal either way.
brand excitement 40/100.
maps onto categories the store already runs.
The full runway · across 13 stores
Every category Kit Kat® plays in across the Bay Area grocers we track, and where it stands at Safeway. Depth is the distinct SKUs the store carries there versus the fleet median, shown next to the rival brands already on that shelf.
On shelf here, but only 10 of 22 SKUs. Room to widen the line.
Already stocked here in other categories, so this one is a natural extension.
How it prices
Where it would price in chocolate candies. Each dot is a product on the shelf, by its cost per fl oz (hover for which). Kit Kat® (orange) sits above the shelf.
What to bring to expand
Kit Kat®’s SKUs Safeway doesn’t carry yet, ordered by how many other Bay Area grocers already stock them.
Already on the shelf
Presence and depth are measured from Safeway’s current Bay Area storefront: its online catalog plus our shelf photos, a partial view. A widely-distributed brand shown as a new door may already be carried through channels we don’t index. Safeway profile →
